strsim-rs

Rust implementations of string similarity metrics:

• Hamming
• Levenshtein - distance & normalized
• Optimal string alignment
• Damerau-Levenshtein - distance & normalized
• Jaro and Jaro-Winkler - this implementation of Jaro-Winkler does not limit the common prefix length

Installation

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
strsim = "0.7.0"

Documentation

You can change the version in the url to see the documentation for an older version in the changelog.

Usage

extern crate strsim;

use strsim::{hamming, levenshtein, normalized_levenshtein, osa_distance, damerau_levenshtein,
             normalized_damerau_levenshtein, jaro, jaro_winkler};

fn main() {
    match hamming("hamming", "hammers") {
        Ok(distance) => assert_eq!(3, distance),
        Err(why) => panic!("{:?}", why)
    }

    assert_eq!(3, levenshtein("kitten", "sitting"));

    assert!((normalized_levenshtein("kitten", "sitting") - 0.57142).abs() < 0.00001);

    assert_eq!(3, osa_distance("ac", "cba"));

    assert_eq!(2, damerau_levenshtein("ac", "cba"));

    assert!((normalized_damerau_levenshtein("levenshtein", "löwenbräu") - 0.27272).abs() < 0.00001)

    assert!((0.392 - jaro("Friedrich Nietzsche", "Jean-Paul Sartre")).abs() <
            0.001);

    assert!((0.911 - jaro_winkler("cheeseburger", "cheese fries")).abs() <
            0.001);
}

Development

If you don't want to install Rust itself, you can run $ ./dev for a development CLI if you have Docker installed.

Benchmarks require a Nightly toolchain. They are run by cargo +nightly bench.

License

MIT